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More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA ...
It's a nice long-distance engineering win for the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, responsible for keeping the ...
The International Space Station (ISS) executed evasive maneuvers Wednesday evening (April 30) to avoid a piece of passing space debris.
NASA engineers have resurrected Voyager 1's half-century-old thrusters more than 20 years after they fell silent, reviving a crucial backup just months before a planned communications blackout ...
Researchers reawakened roll thrusters for Voyager 1, restoring a backup system months before an Earth antenna sending ...
The U.S. Space Force tested a new propulsion system designed for satellites that will keep tabs on spacecraft and other ...
The group behind a taxpayer-funded methane satellite has finally revealed what is behind delays to a crucial milestone.
NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped ...
This is valuable when, for example, a vessel is in position but performs a heading-change maneuver. When the vessel rate of turn picks up, the thruster is travelling along an arc where the ...
Organisers Surfers Against Sewage say that there are 'paddle-out' protests in over 40 locations across the UK.
Chinese engineers have rescued two satellites that were stuck in the wrong orbit using a novel 'gravitational slingshot' method.